Improvement in frames for traveling-bags



Cthdtt tdfe WILLIAM ROEMEKR, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 110,791, dated January 3, 1871.

IMPRQVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR TRAVELING-BAGS, &c.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To a-Zl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Roanne, of Newark, in the county ot' Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Frames for Valises or 'Iraveliug-Bags, of which the following is a specification. p

In the accompanying drawing- Figure I represents an inside view-of the frame when open.

Figure II is a section of the same.

Figure III is a section at line 1-2.

Figure 1V is a section at line 3 4.

Similar letters represent similar parts.

rIhe nature of my invention consists in the combination of a hinged inlay 'with a pressed or stamped hinged frame, between which the material forming the bag or valise can be placed, and riveting the whole together.

A A are the two Sides forming the frame, which may be either pressed or stamped, and are hinged together upon the bolt a, passing the Whole length of 'the frame from oneside to the otherside, in the usual manner.

B B are tbe inlays, itting into the frames A A, and hinged on the same -bolt, a, on which the frames A are hinged, as shown'at a anden, Fig. I.

Instead of forming the hinges onthe inlays, the saine may be iliade separate and riveted to said inla is.

5The material used for forming the bag or valise is attached to the inlays in the usual manner, so as to come betivrgsaichinlays B and the sides O ofthe frames A, and the inlays aiethen riveted to the frames A, firmly securing the material between the same.

B'ytbis arrangement of hinging the inlays on the same bolt, a, on which the frames A are lii11ged, and

then securing the inlays and frames together by lrivets or otherwise, a much stronger frame is obtained than is the case when only the frames A are hinged on the bolt.

I am aware that body-bands of large frames, being generally called railroad-frames, have' been hinged to the bolt at the inner sides, and the outer side attached by means of iron ears riveted to the ,body-band, on which the material'is fastened; also, am I aware .that pressed frames, generally called French frames, have been made, with loose inlays, and then the m'aterial riveted between the outside frame and the inlay; and therefore do not claim either of them; but

XVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a hin ged an ge frame, a hinged inlay lying parallel with and riveted or otherwise fastened to the side ange of the frame, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

WILLIAM ROEMER'.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, J om: CHRISTIAN. 

